MISSION

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

The Bible, Matthew 9:37

The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning.

Emil Brunner

When God wills to convert the heathen world, young man, he’ll do it without consulting you or me.

The advice which William Carey was given, and which led him in 1792 to start a fund for the Baptist Missionary Society

I will go down, if you will hold the ropes.

William Carey’s prayer, likening his missionary work to exploring a mine

The crowning wonder of God’s scheme is that he entrusted it to men. It is the supreme glory of humanity that the machinery for its redemption should have been placed within itself.

Henry Drummond

We cannot hesitate to believe that the great mission of Christianity was in reality accomplished by means of informal missionaries.

Adolf Harnack

You have a world to win.

Karl Marx, conclusion of Communist Manifesto

My parish is the gutter.

David Wilkerson